Teresa Berganza, sultry-voiced mezzo-soprano revered for her portrayal of Carmen and her performances of Mozart and Rossini – obituary

• Teresa Berganza, who has died aged 89, was a Spanish mezzo-soprano who won the hearts of British opera lovers in 1958 with a sensational debut as Cherubino in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro at Glyndebourne; one critic wrote that she sang with “a charming mixture of childlike puzzlement and fretful longings, her roving eye holding a promise of danger”.